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The narrator(s) of the Mahabharata

Is this part of Mark Antony's speech to the conspirators in the play "Julius Caesar" meant to be honest?

Julius Caesar: "If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i’ th’ other..."

Distinction between author and narrator/speaker

What does the title "Auguries of Innocence" (William Blake) mean?

Meaning of "not to say this is a bad kind of poetry" etc. in Wordsworth's Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads"

Edmund Spenser's sonnet "My Love is like to ice, and I to fire"

Does Faustus start with heroic dignity?

What does the poem "Philosophy" by Nissim Ezekiel mean?

"America for Me" - too regular metre?

“O Where Are You Going” / “The Three Companions” by W. H. Auden

What does the final stanza of "Thrushes" by Ted Hughes mean?

Scanning "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"

The “Sea of Faith” in Matthew Arnold’s poem ‘Dover Beach’

Scanning Langston Hughes' "The South"

Paul D's prison and escape in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Did anastrophe in English poetry have to do with French influence?

What does “it” refer to in this line from “The Mental Hospital Garden”?

The use of "thou" etc. in Romantic poetry

What does "and who is poorer than he who is in love..." from "The Mental Hospital Garden" by William Carlos Williams mean?

What does this line from an essay on T. S. Eliot mean?

What does the “justness of characters” mean?

Writing style in Isaac Asimov's short story "Nightfall"